> Half of UK employees ‘threaten to quit’ if they aren’t offered flexible working
Yeah!!
Power to the people!
Hell yeah! It’s ridiculous that we’re expected to commute an hour to the office in an industrial estate with no housing nearby, just for a job that can be done at home!
The topic of a 4 days work week has already started to be raised at work. Everyone would be okay with working longer hours on those 4 days to make up for the fifth, I honestly can’t really see a downside for my employer, but they’re not there yet.
It would be one less day of commuting for everyone including the employer and everyone would be more motivated to get everything done ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Offices are less productive, unless you have a specific reason
Our company tried to make everyone go back in two days a week but have since softened their tone and simply ‘encourage’ people to come in once or twice a week but ask for a minimum of two days a month which people are happier with.
Whenever I’ve been in the office it’s practically deserted and most of my team are based elsewhere anyway so the benefits are very limited for me. It’s a box ticking exercise to go in when I do.
I find grimly amusing the schizophrenic attitude so often held between ‘flexible working’ and ‘the gig economy’.
I must be part of the other 2/3 that already did quit for a remote job.
I give it a year before tories make it illegal to quit your job. You can only leave if you’re fired.
I’m sick of the rhetoric that people in remote working jobs are lazy and sit around watching Netflix all day. Most of us are still monitored constantly and have targets and endless communication from our managers checking in on us. You can’t just ‘skive’ in a job.
I’m never going back to the 6am alarm, travelling 20 miles on public transport and spending £150 a week to do a job I can do from my livingroom lifestyle. If a company is going to force me to come back to the office I’ll find another job.
Simple. And any passive aggressive or sarcastic comments towards people like me is really disheartening. We should be supporting eachother guys. Better working conditions for all.
Some can afford the energy rises better than others.
And long may it continue
Workers are rising up it’s about time
People have realised a better work/ life balance and are now exercising their worth.
I’m currently in a standoff with my manager over it. Fortunately, she needs my skills a lot more than I need this job 🙂
What’s behind all this? Why are employers against staff WFH? Is it really just employers worried about lack of productivity?
About time people in the UK started working to live rather than living to work.
As someone who’s been paid very well in the past but sacrificed all semblance of work life balance to achieve it, I can honestly say, I’d rather be poor than go back to that.
A recruiter tried to sell me a role at a zero emissions fuel company. They wanted me in 4 day a week minimum (52 mile round trip). Couldn’t make this shit up.
Takes me two hours each way and I have to wake up at 6am when going in to the office
Or wake up at 8 and start working
I can’t believe we had to go in everyday
Plus the cost of travel and London Underground is just not a great way to get to work (summer time is just pain)
That genie is out of the bottle and he’s not going back [in .In](https://in.In) the last two years there have been permanent changes to attitudes to work, commuting, the uses and values of commercial properties and all parties concerned need to look forward instead of backwards to make working life work better.
I go into the office one or two days a week, but at least have the freedom to assess each week and decide what day to be in the office based on my workload and calendar. I also have the freedom to not go in at all, like I did last week when I was full of a horrible cold/flu thing that I really didn’t want to spread.
Flexible working isn’t just about working from home to me – it’s a sign that my manager and my team trusts me to do my role. We all trust in each other, and we are just as productive as ever (if not more, as they get more hours out of people when they’re working from home). I wouldn’t want to work in an environment without that trust, as that would generally mean micromanagement instead of being given autonomy to do your job. I couldn’t go back to working for a micromanager.
I am more productive at home than in the office with the bosses staring at how I work every hour of the day.
Some bosses and owners didn’t get it. They are out of touch with the current trends and productivity innovations.
Soon…
Commercial property companies put pressure on the government, not that this is needed the government has plenty of MP’s that have deep interests in the industry. Threaten to withhold funding etc…
Government attempts yet gain to force people into the office.
Daily Mail pops up with how beneficial working from the office is, as well as threats (if commercial property goes down in value so will your house) etc. BBC follows… the usual.
Problem is folk aren’t listening anymore.
As the saying goes.. very apt today….
“No Army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come”.
I find that a mix of going jnto the office and working from home is the best for me. A full week in the office would really take it out of me, but on the other hand, I’d go a bit crazy if I was at home all week long.
If people want this then they need to stop being keyboard warriors about it and speak out at work. The internet seems to be overwhelmingly in favour of remote working but whenever I go to the office, almost everyone prefers the face to face interaction and relationship building that in person working provides. Start speaking up where it matters and you might be heard.
Left a job where they argued I had to be in the office to do it. Only thing was they recruited and employed me remotely first, and other people on my team were also 100% WFH. Pure control.
These type of companies need to die off.
I would prefer it if they threatened to quit because the 1% own 90% of all the wealth but I guess you can’t have it all
I did, back in Oct. 100% remote fr nearly 2x the salary.
No complaints here…
In life, I’ve found that what people say and do are two different things.
Half of UK employees? Unlikely, even more so with a recession coming thanks to this shitty government of crooks.
Found a Brexit benefit: they’re gonna have a hard time threatening to replace people with cheap, willing Eastern European labourers because they’re no longer willing. Corporate fucking itself with Brexit once again. Glorious!
If people can work from home, great, let them do it. I worked through lockdowns and it was lovely, clear roads and easy parking. Now all you cunts are back making my life a misery
I work from home 95% of the time. I might head in to run a workshopping session every now and again. I’m a 20 minute drive from my office. I’m so much more productive at home. It’s so easy to dip in and out of meetings. I have 3 monitors and often carry on working while in meetings while listening to the convo and chipping in when needed.
That said… I live in a village and we have very few amenities around..
I want to put another question to people. As the high street is losing money due to WFH, do you think it’s possible that as a society we can get away from our reliance on urban living and actually start spreading out more? Will people tend to shop more locally if demand for it rises enough?
My company did this. So I left and joined another startup. Got a 22k raise too.
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> Half of UK employees ‘threaten to quit’ if they aren’t offered flexible working
Yeah!!
Power to the people!
Hell yeah! It’s ridiculous that we’re expected to commute an hour to the office in an industrial estate with no housing nearby, just for a job that can be done at home!
The topic of a 4 days work week has already started to be raised at work. Everyone would be okay with working longer hours on those 4 days to make up for the fifth, I honestly can’t really see a downside for my employer, but they’re not there yet.
It would be one less day of commuting for everyone including the employer and everyone would be more motivated to get everything done ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Offices are less productive, unless you have a specific reason
Our company tried to make everyone go back in two days a week but have since softened their tone and simply ‘encourage’ people to come in once or twice a week but ask for a minimum of two days a month which people are happier with.
Whenever I’ve been in the office it’s practically deserted and most of my team are based elsewhere anyway so the benefits are very limited for me. It’s a box ticking exercise to go in when I do.
I find grimly amusing the schizophrenic attitude so often held between ‘flexible working’ and ‘the gig economy’.
I must be part of the other 2/3 that already did quit for a remote job.
I give it a year before tories make it illegal to quit your job. You can only leave if you’re fired.
I’m sick of the rhetoric that people in remote working jobs are lazy and sit around watching Netflix all day. Most of us are still monitored constantly and have targets and endless communication from our managers checking in on us. You can’t just ‘skive’ in a job.
I’m never going back to the 6am alarm, travelling 20 miles on public transport and spending £150 a week to do a job I can do from my livingroom lifestyle. If a company is going to force me to come back to the office I’ll find another job.
Simple. And any passive aggressive or sarcastic comments towards people like me is really disheartening. We should be supporting eachother guys. Better working conditions for all.
Some can afford the energy rises better than others.
And long may it continue
Workers are rising up it’s about time
People have realised a better work/ life balance and are now exercising their worth.
I’m currently in a standoff with my manager over it. Fortunately, she needs my skills a lot more than I need this job 🙂
What’s behind all this? Why are employers against staff WFH? Is it really just employers worried about lack of productivity?
About time people in the UK started working to live rather than living to work.
As someone who’s been paid very well in the past but sacrificed all semblance of work life balance to achieve it, I can honestly say, I’d rather be poor than go back to that.
A recruiter tried to sell me a role at a zero emissions fuel company. They wanted me in 4 day a week minimum (52 mile round trip). Couldn’t make this shit up.
Takes me two hours each way and I have to wake up at 6am when going in to the office
Or wake up at 8 and start working
I can’t believe we had to go in everyday
Plus the cost of travel and London Underground is just not a great way to get to work (summer time is just pain)
That genie is out of the bottle and he’s not going back [in .In](https://in.In) the last two years there have been permanent changes to attitudes to work, commuting, the uses and values of commercial properties and all parties concerned need to look forward instead of backwards to make working life work better.
I go into the office one or two days a week, but at least have the freedom to assess each week and decide what day to be in the office based on my workload and calendar. I also have the freedom to not go in at all, like I did last week when I was full of a horrible cold/flu thing that I really didn’t want to spread.
Flexible working isn’t just about working from home to me – it’s a sign that my manager and my team trusts me to do my role. We all trust in each other, and we are just as productive as ever (if not more, as they get more hours out of people when they’re working from home). I wouldn’t want to work in an environment without that trust, as that would generally mean micromanagement instead of being given autonomy to do your job. I couldn’t go back to working for a micromanager.
I am more productive at home than in the office with the bosses staring at how I work every hour of the day.
Some bosses and owners didn’t get it. They are out of touch with the current trends and productivity innovations.
Soon…
Commercial property companies put pressure on the government, not that this is needed the government has plenty of MP’s that have deep interests in the industry. Threaten to withhold funding etc…
Government attempts yet gain to force people into the office.
Daily Mail pops up with how beneficial working from the office is, as well as threats (if commercial property goes down in value so will your house) etc. BBC follows… the usual.
Problem is folk aren’t listening anymore.
As the saying goes.. very apt today….
“No Army in the world can stop an idea whose time has come”.
I find that a mix of going jnto the office and working from home is the best for me. A full week in the office would really take it out of me, but on the other hand, I’d go a bit crazy if I was at home all week long.
If people want this then they need to stop being keyboard warriors about it and speak out at work. The internet seems to be overwhelmingly in favour of remote working but whenever I go to the office, almost everyone prefers the face to face interaction and relationship building that in person working provides. Start speaking up where it matters and you might be heard.
Left a job where they argued I had to be in the office to do it. Only thing was they recruited and employed me remotely first, and other people on my team were also 100% WFH. Pure control.
These type of companies need to die off.
I would prefer it if they threatened to quit because the 1% own 90% of all the wealth but I guess you can’t have it all
I did, back in Oct. 100% remote fr nearly 2x the salary.
No complaints here…
In life, I’ve found that what people say and do are two different things.
Half of UK employees? Unlikely, even more so with a recession coming thanks to this shitty government of crooks.
Found a Brexit benefit: they’re gonna have a hard time threatening to replace people with cheap, willing Eastern European labourers because they’re no longer willing. Corporate fucking itself with Brexit once again. Glorious!
If people can work from home, great, let them do it. I worked through lockdowns and it was lovely, clear roads and easy parking. Now all you cunts are back making my life a misery
I work from home 95% of the time. I might head in to run a workshopping session every now and again. I’m a 20 minute drive from my office. I’m so much more productive at home. It’s so easy to dip in and out of meetings. I have 3 monitors and often carry on working while in meetings while listening to the convo and chipping in when needed.
That said… I live in a village and we have very few amenities around..
I want to put another question to people. As the high street is losing money due to WFH, do you think it’s possible that as a society we can get away from our reliance on urban living and actually start spreading out more? Will people tend to shop more locally if demand for it rises enough?
My company did this. So I left and joined another startup. Got a 22k raise too.
Straight W